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Channel Marketing Trends: Taking Stock And Looking To 2023

By Daniel Nissan, Founder and CEO, StructuredWeb It’s no secret: 2022 presented a rocky path for businesses. Many challenges to marketing and sales have cropped up — some expected, some surprising. But there’s good news: Those challenges make channel marketing more valuable than ever. Plus, channels are growing and ripe for business. Let’s review the […]

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Impartner Enhances Platform With Code-Free Data Customization; Offers Master Classes On Starting And Scaling Channel Ecosystem Programs

Impartner, a channel management platform and partner relationship management (PRM) provider, has announced a new capability that creates code-free data customization of its solution. Impartner Custom Objects reduces weeks of PRM customization to a few clicks accelerating its customers’ ability to address their unique channel business cases. Custom Objects provides the partner channel with the […]

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Channel Partners Split On Plans For Marketing Budgets In 2023

Slightly more than half of the channel partners responding to a “quick poll” by Candefero, an exclusive on-line community for the IT channel, are planning to increase their marketing budgets in 2023. But while 24% of the respondents said they will keep their marketing budgets at the same level, the remaining quarter of the respondents […]

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Zift Solutions Introduces Package To Support Collaboration By Channel Ecosystem Partners

Zift Solutions, a provider of partner relationship management (PRM) and through-channel marketing automation (TCMA) software, has introduced a package to support channel partner program ecosystems. ZiftONE for Ecosystems includes all of the existing features of the company’s ZiftONE solution, including its through-partner marketing automation suite. The new offering enables partners to effectively interact with a supplier’s […]

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Investments In Channel Marketing Programs To Climb As Satisfaction In Their Performance Rises

A third study by Foundry, an IDG company, has determined that channel leaders are increasingly satisfied with the performance of their partner marketing program. Since its last Partner Marketing Study in 2019, Foundry noted that the number of respondents who said their partner marketing program provides great or some value has climbed from 83% to […]

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Private Equity Firms Continue To Bet On Growth Of Partner Ecosystem Management Solutions

Private equity firms continue to make significant investments ecosystem management solutions providers. Early this month, Channext, a Software-as-a-Service platform that supports online connections between vendors and business partners, announced that it has raised €4.5M ($4.42M) in a Series A round of funding led by Holland Capital, who invested together with the Graduate Entrepreneur Fund and current investors. WorkSpan, […]

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ZINFI Updates Channel Management Platform With Affiliate Marketing Management Solutions

ZINFI Technologies, a through-channel marketing automation and partner relationship management solutions provider, has launched a set of affiliate marketing management (AMM) solutions as a part of its unified channel management platform. The newly released AMM capabilities will allow companies to promote their brands and drive referral and lead generation for their products and services via […]

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Zift Solutions Receives $16.5 Million Growth Funding Investment

Zift Solutions, a provider of partner relationship management (PRM) and through-channel marketing automation (TCMA) software, has announced a $16.5 million growth funding investment from AshGrove Capital. Through its ZiftONE software, Zift Solutions provides a comprehensive, modern platform that aligns channel marketing, channel sales, and channel operations. Based on nearly two decades of experience, ZiftONE’s all-in-one PRM […]

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Expanding Channels Ecosystem Landscape Generates $3.9 Billion In Sales

The number of companies offering solutions that enable brands to more effectively manage their channel ecosystems continues to grow. In its first Channels Ecosystem Landscape report, Canalys, an independent analyst company, lists 223 different companies with combined annual sales of $3.9 billion. The market for channel ecosystem enabling products is expected to continue to rise, […]

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PRM Platform Provider Allbound Announces $43 Million Private Equity Investment

Allbound, a leading partner relationship management (PRM) platform, announced a $43 million majority investment from Invictus Growth Partners, a private equity firm. The capital will be used to accelerate investments in sales, marketing, and for further enhancements to the company’s PRM platform. The Allbound PRM platform allows companies to accelerate sales and marketing in reseller, […]

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